Don't snatch livelihood of paramedical staff: Altaf Bukhari

Urges LG to revoke termination order of nurses by GMC Kathua

GK News Network

Srinagar, April 7, 2020, 1:29 AMApril 7, 2020, 1:30 AM

UPDATED: April 7, 2020, 1:30 AM

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Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) President Altaf Bukhari on Monday urged the J&K government not to snatch livelihood of paramedical staff at a time when they were needed the most as front line respondents to fight battle against deadly coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir.

Reacting
sharply to disengagement of junior staff nurses by Government Medical College
Kathua, who were recruited by the government under SRO-24 in January last year,
Bukhari urged the Lieutenant Governor (LG) GC Murmu to personally intervene
into the matter and order immediate revocation of the termination order.

The JKAP President observed
that most of the terminated staff nurses were lone breadwinners for their
families. “Instead of snatching their livelihood, these nurses should be
allowed to continue their work. If the government is unable to provide jobs to
laks of our qualified unemployed youth, at least, it should not create more
joblessness by disengaging the already adjusted professional people,” Bukhari
said.

He said the disengagement
of paramedical staff would have devastating effects on their families who have
put in all their resources and barely managed to give professional trainings to
their children.

Bukhari
censured the J&K Health Services Department for not allowing the already
selected medical assistants in Kashmir to join their duties for “frivolous
reasons.”

“It is ironical that when
the whole world is offering well paid jobs to healthcare professionals in this
hour of pandemic, the department of health services in Kashmir is not allowing
42 medical assistants selected by J&K Service Selection Board to join their
duties for trivial reasons,” Bukhari said, while appealing the LG to intervene
into the matter and get the matter resolved.

“To fight the coronavirus, we need to have a
robust healthcare system and adequate manpower. When the healthcare system in
J&K is already running on crutches, the disengagement of paramedical staff
means putting the lives of people at stake,” he remarked.

Bukhari reiterated his
demand for fast-track recruitment process of doctors and paramedics in Jammu
and Kashmir, in view of coronavirus pandemic. He said the situation that
emerged after COVID-19 outbreak has overburdened the medical fraternity of
J&K, and emergency recruitment of medicos was need of the hour.

Bukhari said one of the
burning issues adding to the atmosphere of uncertainty and alienation in Jammu
and Kashmir was the alarming rate of its unemployment. “Any further delay in
addressing this smoldering issue would have dire consequences for the stability
in the region,” he said.

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